Automatic incline pool-ball rack and spotter



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' W. A. TEA.

AUTOMATIC INGLINE POOL BALL BACK AND SPOTTER.

Patented Apr. 15, 1884.

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W. A. TEA.

AUTOMATIC ING-LINE POOL BALL BACK AND SPOTTER.

No. 297.031. Patented Apr. 15, 1884.

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WILLIAM A. TEA, OF CLYDE, OHIO.

AUTOMATIC INCLINE POOL-BALL RACK AND SPOTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,031, dated April15, 188

Application filed January 12, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLLIM A. TEA, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Clyde, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, haveinvented an Improved and useful Oombination Automatic Incline Pool'BallRack and Spotter, used for holding pool-balls and automatically placingthe pool-balls ona pooltable when required; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, made a part of this specification, in

which Figure 4 shows the pool-ball rack as now used. Fig. 1 shows thepool-ball rack with my invention attached. Fig. 2 shows the pool-ballrack in operation, placing the poolballs automatically upon thepool-table. Fig. 3 shows the pool-ball rack, after placing the balls onthe table, as it is being brought back to place by means of weight andpulley.

The nature of my invention consists in pro viding a place for keeping agiven number of pool'balls, which can be placed on a pool-table whendesired, and at the same time spotted or bunched in a triangle by simplyinoviug the conductor or tube until it strikes the pool-table, when theballs pass down an incline into the slotted tube, as fully shown in Fig.2.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed todescribe its construction and operation.

In Fig. 1, the letter A represents a poola ball rack as universallyused.

B represents the triangle attached to the slotted tube or conductor.

0 represents a slotted tube or conductor, made of strips of wood orother material fastened together with brass or nickle-pla-te bands. Thistube is used to conduct the balls onto the table.

D represents a pulley used in bringing the tube and rack back to placewhen not in use.

. E represents a weight at the end ofa cord or wire.

F represents an adjustable frame, fastened to the side of room orbuilding with hinges.

G represents a coil-spring, used to close an adjustable stop-door.

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H H represent a roller-hinge, which works in the grooves J J.

I I represent the hinges upon which the rack A rests, as is fully shownin Fig. 3.

K represents a stop-door.

L L represent two chains used to give the rack anincline position, andat same time raise the stopdoor K and allow the pool-balls to pass intothe slotted tube, as is fully shown in Fig. 2.

The rack is so hung as to nearly balance itself, and by means of theslide-hinges herein described so adjusts itself as to form an inclinetrack, allowing the pool-balls to pass out and into the tube, fromthence onto the pool-table, where they are bunched in the triangle,which is done by dropping or lowering the tube 0, as is fully shown indrawings hereto attached.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with a billiard ball rack, of a tube attached to oneside thereof, and means for raising and lowering the same, substantiallyas shown and described,whereby billiard-balls placed in the rack will bereceived in the tube and conducted to a table, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a billiard ball rack and a tube attached to oneside thereof, of a triangular frame secured to the end of the tube, andmeans for raising and lowering the .same, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with a billiard -ball rack, A, provided with hingesI, and thetube 0, attached thereto, of the frame F, hinged at one end tothe rack at I, and at the other end to the wall, and the pulley D andweight and cord E, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination, with the rack A, the tube 0, the hinged frame F, theweight E, and pulley D, of the rollerhinges H on the rack, and thegrooved ways J, as shown and described.

5. The combination, with the ball-rack A, the frame F, hinged theretoand to the wall, the roller-hinges H, the grooved ways J, and the tube0, of the brace-chains L, as shown and described.

6. The combinati0n,with the rack A, hinged to swing, as described, andthe tube 0, connected thereto, of the stop-door K and the the two chainsbeing of such relative lengths :0 spring G,forreturning the same,asshown and that the rack A, when tipped down, will indescribed. I (:linetoward the tube 0, and the door K will 7. The c01nbination,with the rackA, hinged be held open, for the purpose specified. to swin as describedthe tube 0 attached n thereto, and the stop-door K, hinged to theWILLIAM rack, of the two chains L, one connecting the \Vitnesses: rackand wall, and the other oonnecting'the G. S. DEWEY, door K and the wall,as shown and described, V. S. VOGT.

